Argon ONE M.2 Raspberry Pi 4 Case Reviews

4.7 Rating 193 Reviews

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“This is a quality bit of kit. Very well made, great SSD support with the m.2 adapter - also note that you can plug the base adapter directly into your Windows PC if needed to flash the SSD.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“It's a solid little addition to the Argon 1 case. It adds maybe 15mm of extra height to the case and takes up one of your PI's USB 3.0 Ports during operation. I'm using mine as a boot drive for a homeassistant install - so far so good! And should be much more robust for consistent reads and writes compared to running from an SD card There are a couple of things to note however: - It covers the SD card slot completely when installed. This isn't an issue for my usecase, but i'd imagine it may be for others - This does NOT support NVMe drives, only SATA - Burning an OS image to the SSD was a bit of an odd task. I do not have an M.2 to usb caddy or adaptor other than this case. So, I had to adapt the female USB A port on this device to male using the included adaptor, and then run a USB extension to my PC. It worked fine, but i kind of expected a standard downstream connector like a micro USB female port or similar so that the case could be connected to a PC for imaging using a standard cable. Without a USB extension i would have had purchase a USB A to USB A cable which exist, but are not common at all, or a second USB to M.2 Adaptor just to be able to use this USB to M.2 Adaptor. (I'm sure theres a way to burn an image to the disk using the PI itself to avoid this, i just didnt consider that as i'm not running Raspberry PI OS, seemed silly installing an OS just to install another OS) Overall very pleased, however. I'd definitely recommend the upgrade if you have an Argon 1 case”

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Posted 3 years ago

“The case is very solid, cleverly designed, compact, and aesthetically pleasing. However, the wi-fi frequently evaporates into thin air, and you're left with a lonely pi. I have searched the internet and read some articles about earlier revisions of the Argon One case behaving like Faraday cages, so I guess I have one of those. Had they fixed that I'd have given it a 5* For now I have a spare wireless router I can connect to through the LAN.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Used with an M.2 SSD & PI4 8GB, as a replacement desktop, although I set the fan to turn on at a lower temperature than the default, the case has not yet got warm enough for the fan to turn on.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Used with an M.2 SSD & PI4 8GB, as a replacement desktop, although I set the fan to turn on at a lower temperature than the default, the case has not yet got warm enough for the fan to turn on.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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Posted 3 years ago

“a very sturdy case. i'm very pleased with it.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Great case. Some rough edges but nothing to score it down on. Remember and buy the Argon One power supply and not the Raspberry Pi one. It takes more juice to power the M.2 SSD and the Argon One's own tech inside the case.”

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Posted 3 years ago